Jagster is looking for a way to connect Ulysses, a markdown editor, with Discourse. They used to publish content from Ulysses to WordPress easily, but now want to streamline their workflow with Discourse. angus replied that Ulysses’ integrations are internal and there’s no API, making a Discourse integration unlikely without collaboration. As a result, Jagster will use email publishing as a workaround, sending markdown content from Ulysses to Discourse via email.
Ulysses is one of quite many markdown editors that Apple’s app store offers. Quite expensive for my taste, but it works quite nicely. I used it quite much when I did more content to WordPress.
I could connect Ulysses and WordPress quite easily and all I did was publishing on my iPad and article was copied to WordPress and published.
Because of AI I need such streamlined workflow again. Yes, I can copy from Ulysses and paste into Discourse, but I love automation because I am quite lazy person.
So, The Big Question™ is if someone ever connected Ulysses and Discourse? No, I haven’t even tried yet, because I hate trying to invent a wheel again, if someone has done such operation before… So if it is possible is there something I should be aware of?
I’m a user of Ulysses too. As far as I can tell, their integrations are internal and there’s no API, i.e. they’d need to collaborate on building a Discourse integration.
It looks like they currently use Circle as their community solution. Perhaps someone could pitch them to migrate to a community solution (Discourse) that reflects their stack and ethos (e.g. markdown), and collaborate with them on an integration at the same time.
What a bummer. Then I have to use the next best solution, because I have enabled email. Publishing (as markdown) → share → send as mail
Thanks, I didn’t waste time. I’m a bit sceptical theirs willingness to create such Discourse-option, because the issue may be in the foundation of the app and its tech. But I’m just guessing with zero knowledge.